Healing Belongs to You - Pt 2

By Bishop Keith A. Butler

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4

The second reason why you must know it's God's will for you to be healed is because Jesus died to atone for your sickness and for your sin.

That word grief in the Hebrew, means sickness, disease and pain. Sorrow means pains. It means, surely he hath borne our sicknesses, diseases and pain. The word borne means to suffer punishment for something. Somebody deserved punishment, somebody deserved to suffer, somebody deserved to have cancer and AIDS and sickle cell and lung disease and heart disease. Who was it? It was me and it was you. We were born in sin. Our forefather's sin, Adam's sin, Eve's sin. We deserved to have all of it, but Jesus bore our punishment, in our place on the cross. He took in His body, every pain, every AIDS, every cancer cell, every lung disease, every heart disease, every kind of sickness and disease for you and He bore it away for you. Why? So you don't have to have it.

Verse 5 says, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Every stripe laid on His back, one was for the cancer that wanted to get someone and one was for the AIDS that wanted to get another, one was for heart trouble, one was for whatever sickness or disease you can think of. With every stripe, Jesus was looking at you. With every stripe Jesus was thinking about you. With every stripe Jesus was bearing it for you. Why? So that you don't have to bear it.

You don't have to be sick. You don't have to die prematurely. You don't have to lay down to the devil. There's One who's already done it for you-Jesus. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Prayer for Today

Father,
Healing belongs to me. Because You laid down Your life for me, I can walk in total victory free from sickness and disease. In Jesus' name, Amen!

Selah: Think on These Things

• Isaiah 53:7,10